This page includes book chapter, journal articles and data sets published by Ran's group
Book
1. Ran J, Ditmar P, Kless R, Zhong M, Xiao Y, Jiang L. 2024. Studying Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Balance Using the Mascon Approach. 科学出版社
2. Ran J, Zhong M, Xu H. 2015. Expected Accuracy and Requirement Analysis of China’s Future Satellite Gravity Mission (Ed.), GRACE Follow-On in China: Space advance gravity measurement program (pp. 1-14). Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Journal Articles (* for corresponding author; # for group members, e.g., students, postdocs)
2024
1. Ran J*, Ditmar P, van den Broeke MR, Liu L, Klees R, Khan SA, Moon T, Li J, Bevis M, Zhong M, Fettweis X, Liu J, Noël B, Shum CK, Chen J, Jiang L, van Dam T. (2024). Vertical bedrock shifts reveal summer water storage in Greenland ice sheet. Nature, 635, 108-113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08096-3
2. Ran J, Liu L, Zhang G, Shum CK, Qiu J#, Hu R, Li J, Peng J*, Hwang C, Luan Y*, Sun Y, Xu M, Chen D, Ding J, Zhong Y. (2024). Contrasting lake changes in Tibet revealed by recent multi-modal satellite observations. Science of the Total Environment, 908,168342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168342
3. Yan Z#, Luan Y*, Ran J, Shum CK, Zeng Z#, Qian N, Zhang Y, Smith P, Pan X, Huang Z. (2024). Optimal Design of a Third Pair of Gravity Satellites to Augment Two Existing Polar Pairs to Enhance Earth's Temporal Gravity Field Recovery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17, 14145-14160. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3437744
4. Chen W, Xiong Y*, Shum C, Forootan E, Zhong M, Ran J, Wang C, Feng W, Li W, Yang Z. (2024). A statistical collocation accuracy assessment of contemporary satellite temporal gravimetry data products. All Earth, 36, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/27669645.2024.2399984
5. Ali S#, Ran J*, Luan Y, Khorrami B, Xiao Y, Tangdamrongsub N. (2024). The GWR model-based regional downscaling of GRACE/GRACE-FO derived groundwater storage to investigate local-scale variations in the North China Plain. Science of the Total Environment, 908, 168239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168239
6. Ali S#, Ran J*, Khorrami B, Wu H, Tariq A, Jehanzaib M, Khan MM, Faisal M. (2024).Downscaled GRACE/GRACE-FO observations for spatial and temporal monitoring of groundwater storage variations at the local scale using machine learning. Groundwater for SustainableDevelopment,25, 101100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2024.101100
2023
7. Yan Z#, Ran J*, Xiao Y, Xu Z, Wu H, Deng X-L, Du L, Zhong M. (2023). The Temporal Improvement of Earth's Mass Transport Estimated by Coupling GRACE-FO With a Chinese Polar Gravity Satellite Mission. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB027157. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027157
8. 冉将军,闫政文*,吴云龙,等.下一代重力卫星任务研究概述与未来展望[J].武汉大学学报(信息科学版),2023,48(06):841-857.DOI:10.13203/j.whugis20220629.
2022
9. Wu S*, Liu G, Ran J, You W, Wang L, Ding Y, Wang X, Yin G, Mao W, Bao J. (2022). Multitemporal mass change analysis of Greenland Ice Sheet using variational mode decomposition. Geophysical Journal International, 230, 1711-1724. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac132
10. Deng X-L#, Shen W-B, Yang M, Kuhn M, Ran J*. (2022). First-Order Derivatives of Principal and Main Invariants of Magnetic Gradient Tensor of a Uniformly Magnetized Tesseroid and Spherical Shell. Surveys in Geophysics, 43, 1233-1262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-022-09697-1
2021
11. Wan X, Yu J*, Liang L, Ran J, Annan RF. (2021). Analysis of limitations on recovery of gravity field based on satellite gravity gradient data. Geodesy and Geodynamics, 12, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geog.2020.11.005
12. Wan X*, Han W, Ran J, Ma W, Annan RF, Li B. (2021). Seafloor density contrast derived from gravity and shipborne depth observations: A case study in a local area of Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 668863. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.668863
13. Ran J*, Tangdamrongsub N, Wan X*. (2021). The impact of error covariance matrix structure of GRACE’s gravity solution on the mass flux estimates of Greenland ice sheet. Advances in Space Research, 67, 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.07.012
14. Ran J*, Ditmar P, Liu L, Xiao Y, Klees R, Tang X. (2021). Analysis and Mitigation of Biases in Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Balance Trend Estimates From GRACE Mascon Products. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020880. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020880
15. Liu W#, Chen X#, Ran J*, Liu L, Wang Q, Xin L, Li G. (2021). LaeNet: A Novel Lightweight Multitask CNN for Automatically Extracting Lake Area and Shoreline from Remote Sensing Images. Remote Sensing, 13, 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13010056
16. Deng X-L#, Shen W-B, Yang M, Ran J.* (2021). First-order derivatives of principal and main invariants of gravity gradient tensor of the tesseroid and spherical shell. Journal of Geodesy, 95, 102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01547-z
17. Deng X-L#, Ran J*. (2021). Higher-order gravitational potential gradients by tensor analysis in spherical coordinates. Journal of Geodesy, 95, 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01539-z
18. Cai L*, Wan X, Hsu H, Ran J, Meng X, Luo Z, Zhou Z. (2021). The earth’s gravity field recovery using the third invariant of the gravity gradient tensor from GOCE. Scientific Reports, 11, 3581. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81840-1
2020
19. Yang X, Tian S, Feng W, Ran J, You W*, Jiang Z, Gong X. (2020). Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Water Storage Trends from Hydrological Models over Australia Using GRACE Mascon Solutions. Remote Sensing, 12, 3578. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213578
20. Yang Y, Li F, Hwang C*, Ding M, Ran J. (2019). Space-Time Evolution of Greenland Ice Sheet Elevation and Mass From Envisat and GRACE Data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124, 2079-2100. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004765
21. Wan X, Ran J, Jin S*. (2019). Sensitivity analysis of gravity anomalies and vertical gravity gradient data for bathymetry inversion. Marine Geophysical Research, 40, 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-018-9361-8
22. Sun Y-C, Uyeshima M, Ren H*, Huang Q, Aizawa K, Tsukamoto K, Kanda W, Seki K, Kishita T, Ohminato T, Watanabe A, Ran J, Chen X. (2019). Numerical simulations to explain the coseismic electromagnetic signals: a case study for a M5.4 aftershock of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. Earth, Planets and Space, 71, 143. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-019-1122-7
23. Ran J, Tangdamrongsub N, Shi J, Wang C*, Wang L, Wan X. (2019). GRACE observed mass loss in the middle and lower Yangtze basin. Geodesy and Geodynamics, 10, 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geog.2018.06.008
24. Groh A*, Horwath M, Horvath A, Meister R, Sørensen LS, Barletta VR, Forsberg R, Wouters B, Ditmar P, Ran J, Klees R, Su X, Shang K, Guo J, Shum CK, Schrama E, Shepherd A. (2019). Evaluating GRACE Mass Change Time Series for the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet—Methods and Results. Geosciences, 9, 415. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9100415
2018
25. Ran J*, Ditmar P, Klees R. (2018b). Optimal mascon geometry in estimating mass anomalies within Greenland from GRACE. Geophysical Journal International, 214, 2133-2150. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy242
26. Ran J*, Ditmar P, Klees R, Farahani HH. (2018a). Statistically optimal estimation of Greenland Ice Sheet mass variations from GRACE monthly solutions using an improved mascon approach. Journal of Geodesy, 92, 299-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-017-1063-5
27. Wan X, Ran J*. (2018). An alternative method to improve gravity field models by incorporating GOCE gradient data. Earth Sciences Research Journal, 22, 187-193. https://doi.org/10.15446/esrj.v22n3.64666
28. Tangdamrongsub N*, Han S-C, Tian S, Müller Schmied H, Sutanudjaja EH, Ran J, Feng W. (2018). Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations Estimated from GRACE Data Assimilation and State-of-the-Art Land Surface Models in Australia and the North China Plain. Remote Sensing, 10, 483. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10030483
29. Ran J*, Vizcaino M, Ditmar P, van den Broeke MR, Moon T, Steger CR, Enderlin EM, Wouters B, Noël B, Reijmer CH, Klees R, Zhong M, Liu L, Fettweis X. (2018). Seasonal mass variations show timing and magnitude of meltwater storage in the Greenland Ice Sheet. The Cryosphere, 12, 2981-2999. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2981-2018
30. Ditmar P, Tangdamrongsub N, Ran J*, Klees R. (2018). Estimation and reduction of random noise in mass anomaly time-series from satellite gravity data by minimization of month-to-month year-to-year double differences. Journal of Geodynamics, 119, 9-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2018.05.003
2010-2017
31. 冉将军, 钟敏*, 许厚泽, 周泽兵, 万晓云. 模拟分析低低跟踪模式重力卫星反演地球重力场的精度[J]. 地球物理学报, 2015, 58(10): 3487-3495, doi: 10.6038/cjg20151005
32. 王长青, 许厚泽, 钟敏*, 冯伟, 冉将军, 杨帆. 利用动力学方法解算GRACE时变重力场研究[J]. 地球物理学报, 2015, 58(3): 756-766, doi: 10.6038/cjg20150306
33. 王长青, 许厚泽, 钟敏*, 冉将军, 周江存. 海潮误差对GRACE时变重力场解算的影响研究[J]. 地球物理学报, 2015, 58 (09): 3072-3079.
34. 罗子人, 钟敏, 边星, 董鹏, 董玉辉, 高伟, 李洪银, 李玉琼, 刘河山, 冉将军, 邵明学, 唐文林, 徐鹏, 杨然, 靳刚*. 地球重力场空间探测: 回顾与展望[J]. 力学进展, 2014, 44(1): 201408. doi: 10.6052/1000-0992-14-047
35. 冉将军, 许厚泽, 钟敏*, 冯伟, 沈云中, 张兴福, 易维勇. 利用GRACE重力卫星观测数据反演全球时变地球重力场模型[J]. 地球物理学报, 2014, 57(4): 1032-1040, doi: 10.6038/cjg20140402
36. 冉将军, 许厚泽, 沈云中, 钟敏*, 张兴福. 新一代GRACE重力卫星反演地球重力场的预期精度[J]. 地球物理学报, 2012, 55(09): 2898-2908, doi: 10.6038/j.issn.0001-5733.2012.09.009
37. 游为, 沈云中, 范东明, 冉将军. 基于卫星轨道扰动理论的重力反演算法[J]. 地球物理学报, 2010, 53 (11): 2574-2581.
Data Sets
1. Ran J, Qiu J#, Hu R#. (2023). Monthly area changes of lakes greater than 30 km² on the Tibetan Plateau over 2015-2020. National Tibetan Plateau / Third Pole Environment Data Center. https://doi.org/10.11888/Terre.tpdc.300869.